Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to relate. I need an image in order to carry on an intimate conversation with what is so vast, amorphous, mysterious, and holy that it becomes ungraspable. I mean, really, how to you become intimate with Divine Reality? Or the Absolute?

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.